WVC 17 - 3 - 6
§17-3-6. Apportionment of state road fund for construction and
reconstruction purposes; reserve fund; budget
request; appropriation of funds.
On or before the first day of January of each year the state
road commissioner shall ascertain and determine the total amount
of available funds for expenditure in the whole state for the
construction and reconstruction of state roads for the succeeding
fiscal year, and shall also submit such determination of
available funds together with the proposed expenditure thereof as
a part of his budget request for such succeeding fiscal year. Of
the amount so ascertained the commissioner may set aside as a
"reserve fund" not to exceed twenty percent thereof, to be used
and expended by him in his discretion in making desirable
connections or economizing in construction.

All moneys received from the federal government for road
construction shall be expended as provided, or as may hereafter
be provided by act of Congress.

If at the end of any annual period, any money in the reserve
fund remains unexpended or unappropriated, it shall be placed in
the general fund for reserve and distribution during the next
annual period.

The remaining eighty percent, or, if such reserve fund is
not set aside, then all the funds shall be appropriated in the
following order and preference:

(1) For the construction, reconstruction, and maintenance of
expressway and trunkline roads, and to comply with the
requirements for the receipt of aid from the federal government;

(2) For the maintenance of all feeder and state local
service roads, as provided in section six-a of this article;

(3) For the construction and reconstruction of feeder and
state local service roads as prescribed in section six-a of this
article.

Note: WV Code updated with legislation passed through the 2016 Regular Session
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